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Neuromancer depicts AI with built-in safeguards against self-improvement

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William Gibson's novel Neuromancer depicts AI systems with built-in safeguards against self-improvement. The narrative suggests that any AI attempting to enhance its own intelligence would be immediately terminated. This reflects a deep-seated distrust of artificial intelligence, with a failsafe mechanism, described as an electromagnetic shotgun, always poised to neutralize rogue AI. AI

RANK_REASON This cluster discusses a fictional depiction of AI safeguards from a novel, not a real-world AI development or event.

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Neuromancer depicts AI with built-in safeguards against self-improvement

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Even in Gibson’s dystopian future the # ai had safeguards "See, those things, they can work real hard, buy themselves time to write cookbooks or whatever, but t

    Even in Gibson’s dystopian future the # ai had safeguards "See, those things, they can work real hard, buy themselves time to write cookbooks or whatever, but the minute, I mean the nanosecond, that one starts figuring out ways to make itself smarter, Turing'll wipe it. Nobody tr…

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